First of all it felt good that someone understood me and respected med as a person. I got the feeling that when someone was willing to take me seriously, I wanted to do my part of the job well. Good therapy is a cooperation between therapist and patient on the way to a better life for the patient.

I think that to benefit from therapy one has to be willing to trust and cooperate, - to look into dark corners of ones life and be eager to build better coping skills. It is also important to have a goal to work for "in the end of the tunnel". Therapy can go up and down (that means that one has to be able to tolerate backsliding without running away).

If you want to go to therapy, the wisest thing you can do, the way I see it, is to prepare yourself for being able to talk about yourself without hiding, - to prepare yourself for cooperation and not to dismiss good advice from your therapist, but rather be able to ask for an explanation if you don't understand. If things are difficult to talk about, tell you therapist. He will understand! It is not about being clever, but about to dare to develop a relationship with the therapist and to trust that the therapist is skilled enough to know how to end this close relationship when you are well enough to make it on your own.